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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 4746200, member: 153"] No one knows the ins and outs. It's all random nonsense. True story: our new provost decided our school needed to game the system. It's not enough that we have an AAU school with tons of research and support, nationally top ranked depts, my department has an international reputation. They decided to game things, like under 20 students in classrooms, and a host of other things which mostly didn't make any sense. They spent 3 yrs rearranging the entire university in ways that weren't healhy. Only for USNWR to arbitrarily announce that it would no longer be using those criteria!!!!!!! This is the equivalent of someone steering a ship like the Titanic away from an iceberg that's been spotted, only to be told much later on that there are no icebergs anywhere in the north atlantic and that the ship is 1,000 miles off course. [/QUOTE]